Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] amount of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , is it not true that the Roosecote project has received a substantial amount of capital from NORWEB but that the deal has been kept secret ? |
| 2 | The subject of English stress has received a large amount of attention , and the references given here are only a small selection from an enormous number . |
| 3 | Despite Berkeley 's comment that ‘ a little attention ’ to this will enable anyone to see how successfully it makes his point , this argument has provoked a considerable amount of detailed discussion . |
| 4 | Similarly , the UK has committed a disproportionate amount of expenditure to basic research ( absorbing something like 12 per cent of professional scientific manpower ) . |
| 5 | Paul keeps up a hectic programme of lectures on the species , and has amassed a considerable amount of information on the pros and cons of reintroduction . |
| 6 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 7 | The 1992 aspect has attracted an unprecedented amount of attention both within the Community and in the rest of the world . |
| 8 | As we have noted , many countries had no press to speak of at the time of independence , and in those that did the press has undergone a considerable amount of change . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman puts his finger on an extremely important issue which has absorbed an enormous amount of my time in the past year . |
| 10 | When the mashing has absorbed the maximum amount of sugar , the liquid — now known as wort — is run off through the slotted base of the vessel . |
| 11 | The past decade has seen an increasing amount of guidance from the departments of health and social security about the need for adequate discharge policies . |
| 12 | has done a tremendous amount of meticulous research on these valuable records . |
| 13 | He was the ‘ guiding light ’ who ‘ has done a tremendous amount of good work for the club ; he has gained the confidence of everyone ’ . |
| 14 | Mr. Dobson : Setting aside the Lord President 's snide references to the London food commission , which has done a considerable amount of good work , I ask him whether , instead of being so complacent , he would be prepared to undertake a thoughtful and organised survey of the views of Hon. Members and of the other people who have to use the cafeterias in this place |
| 15 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |
| 16 | Last but by no means least , the Human Rights Sub-Committee under the chairmanship of has done an enormous amount of work on behalf of lawyers in countries where the rule of law remains somewhere over the rainbow . |
| 17 | Taking this kind of argument it might be more desirable to improve the lot of someone who has had a considerable amount of resources , but now in old age has very little . |
| 18 | I mean it came about because , and I wo n't name names , one member of staff for example has had an astonishing amount of time |
| 19 | I think that if any one else could , because I do know that she has got an amazing amount of work on her plate at the moment |
| 20 | SCOTVEC has devoted a substantial amount of time to debating how staff development might proceed and set up an ad hoc group to undertake more detailed discussions . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) A view which has evoked a fair amount of discussion is ‘ the error theory of ethics ’ put forward by J.L. Mackie . |
| 22 | Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar . |
| 23 | Although going back well into the nineteenth century , in the past two decades this idea has generated a vast amount of research by psychologists , physiologists , neuroanatomists and other scientists . |
| 24 | The subject of obsolescence has generated a considerable amount of literature , most of it based on citation studies — that is , studies showing the number of times that individual books or periodical articles are cited in the lists of references given at the end of a piece of research ( a method , it can be seen , which is distinct from studies of actual library use ) . |
| 25 | ‘ It has increased the total amount of communications significantly … ’ |
| 26 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 27 | This has caused a certain amount of wrangling , with those stalwarts who had been at Down Royal through thick and thin — mostly thin — complaining because there were now too many layers to be accommodated . |
| 28 | This is a valid expense of Shaw plc and it is the charging of this extra depreciation that has caused an equivalent amount of Wilde plc 's provision for unrealised profits to become realised ( see working 3 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ One has gained a certain amount of experience that one did n't have before and I think we will have come out of it stronger . |
| 30 | As regards the distribution of lands between the districts , erm if I can refer to Mr Curtis 's comments first , the Greater York study never anticipated that the distribution of housing around the Greater York the districts would be based around the percentage of population within those districts , but purely on capacity of sites within those districts to accommodate future housing growth without compromising greenbelt objectives , Ryedale , as I 've said before , has taken the largest proportion of recent housing in the Greater York area , and has identified a substantial amount of new land for housing within its Southern Ryedale local plan , what the District Council is concerned about is that within the local , Southern Ryedale local plans , this is taking a large proportion of its district wide total plans , yet the District Council from the structure plan figure given is unable to calculate the remainder of housing that should be allocated in the remainder of its district . |